Ken Osborne

Ken Osborne

Kent Osborne has been in show business since early youth, beginning as a song and dance kid in theatre stage circuits. In his early teens he entered "The American Academy of Theatre Arts" as an actor/director in New York City. At sixteen, he was signed to a 7-year actor contract with "Twentieth Century Fox Studios."

While under contract he owned and operated his own Playhouse Theatre, directing, acting and producing plays. At nineteen he wrote, directed and produced his first film - "It Could Happen to You." He wrote and directed the television shows "Meet Milie" and "Tales of Turf and Live by a Star." Osborne was also instrumental in starting the Board of N.A.B.I.T. and the Independent Screen Producers Association, in which he was voted the First official President.

In his fifty-four theatrical years, Mr. Osborne has written several novels, many plays and more than 90 screenplays - 40 were sold to other Producers and companies. He has produced and directed more than 26 of his own screenplays into major motion pictures. He has written and directed over 200 commercials, documentaries, industrial and armed forces training films throughout the world. Mr. Osborne was head of production for such production companies as Lee Lacey and Associates, Skylark Productions, Ubang Productions and his own.

Movies for Ken Osborne...

Born on the Fourth of July
Title: Born on the Fourth of July
Character: Paraplegic #2 - Miami Convention
Released: December 20, 1989
Type: Movie
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
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Crime of Crimes
Title: Crime of Crimes
Character: Tom Hernandez
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A Latino family new to Los Angeles find itself in trouble when the husband is arrested for a murder he didn't commit. His pregnant wife winds up in the hospital, and his little daughter is kidnapped by a child molester.
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Hell's Bloody Devils
Title: Hell's Bloody Devils
Character: Bloody Devil (as Kent Osborne)
Released: May 28, 1970
Type: Movie
Bikers, Nazis, Mafiosi, and the FBI all clash in this wild and wooly exploitation picture from director Al Adamson. Mark Adams (John Gabriel) is an FBI agent who has been assigned to infiltrate an organized crime ring that has obtained a set of printing plates that will allow them to produce nearly perfect counterfeit 20-dollar bills. The plates were made in Germany during World War II, and were discovered by a radical right-wing group hoping to restore the Nazi Party to power. The American gangsters are in cahoots with a group of wealthy American neo-Nazis sympathetic to the new German cause, led by fugitive war criminal Count von Delberg (Kent Taylor); the count has in turn recruited a vicious motorcycle gang, the Bloody Devils, to do his dirty work.
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Five Bloody Graves
Title: Five Bloody Graves
Character: Dave Miller
Released: October 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A lone gunman hunts the fearsome Apache Satago across the plains of the Wild West. When Satago's marauders ambush a stagecoach, the gunman rides to the rescue of the trapped passengers and helps them in their last stand against the deadly Indians.
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Blood of Dracula's Castle
Title: Blood of Dracula's Castle
Character: Telegram Delivery Man
Released: October 5, 1969
Type: Movie
Count Dracula and his wife capture beautiful young women and chain them in their dungeon, to be used when they need to satisfy their thirst for blood.
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Nightmare in Wax
Title: Nightmare in Wax
Character: Bartender (as Kent Osborne)
Released: May 14, 1969
Type: Movie
The disfigured curator of a wax museum murders his enemies and then uses their bodies as exhibits in his museum.
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The Ice House
Title: The Ice House
Character: Killer
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Ric Martin, an ice house worker, murders women in blind rage after a traumatic accident which occurred at his workplace. Ric’s identical twin brother, police officer Fred Martin is then assigned to investigate the case.